Donald Trump continued on Tuesday to float his idea, which some legal experts say is unconstitutional, to deport U.S. citizens who commit crimes.

Speaking to the press during a tour of a migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, the president repeated claims that there are many immigrants who are now citizens and have been committing serious crimes.

“They’re not new to our country. They’re old to our country. Many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here, too, if you want to know the truth,” he said. “So maybe that will be the next job.”

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    Hmm just got to figure out a place to put them…
    Does France still own Madagascar?

    Or is there some country we are going to war with we can demand them to surrender land for peace, and then plan to export the people to?
    I’m actually betting Gaza as slave labor to build his new city he wants with Bibi, but he wants them to win first.

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    This is essentially what the royals did back in trinity days in Ireland

    That’s how we got Australia.

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    They’re the worst of the worst criminals. Trans and gay, right? Let’s just pardon the child rapist, J6ers, and high-traffic drug dealers.

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    Somebody please correct me if I’m mistaken, but isn’t Trump a convicted felon who has not yet been sentenced?

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      A mere formality. He can just go ask the Supreme Court to declare that he’s not a felon or something. Does it make any sense? No, but does any of it?

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        They just need to vote quickly on what would in the best interest of the country.

        Vote A: The Supreme Court needs a private jet

        Vote B: The Supreme Court needs a luxury yacht


        As soon as that vote is made, they can start negotiations with the Trump administration on a plea deal.

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    How about you start with the criminals who have 34 felony convictions?

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    Genuinely one of the only things keeping me going is that the when the cultural backlash happens and mark my words it will happen, it’s gonna be so massive and sweeping that these fucking ghouls and anyone who supports them will be in a living hell. I’m talking post Jan 6th x10 levels of hate.

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      As a US citizen who is losing hope, I’d love to hear any evidence that a cultural backlash will happen. I don’t see it, anywhere. Even people who are as against this administration as me have simply given up and left the country already or making plans to leave the country. There are no warriors.

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        Hell, you would think that after the shitshow that Reagan had caused during his presidency, they’d be a lot more furore against his legacy right about now. Forty years on, this “cultural backlash” didn’t happen. People don’t shun and hate him and his supporters nearly as much as they ought to. It’s a complete and utter joke.

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      Jan 6th x10 levels of hate

      So that’d be … what, January 60th is February 29th or march 1st depending on year.

      What’s notable about those days?

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      Or they come from countries which don’t recognize dual citizenship, so if they have US citizenship, they no longer have it in their original country.

      Making somebody stateless is a crime by UN law.

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        Yep. I was born in PRC. When I became a US citizenship, I automatically lost PRC Citizenship. Not that I would enjoy living there in any case, don’t know much Mandarin, and hate the CCP. The internet there will suck. I’m gonna stuggle trying to bypass the firewalls to get western media that I’m so acustomed to. Hukous System is gonna be ass, since I have a Rural Hukou.

        But that doesn’t matter. Probably ending up in cecot anyways.

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        Yeah nah, last I checked we weren’t a US colony … or anyone’s for that matter, so that shits not gonna float. That said, our last group of Right Wing arseholes negotiated their own island concentration camp he’ll holes for refugees … use those.

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    People say I got nothing to worry about, but I guess they’ll realize when shit hits the fan. Some of us know just from the smell of the room. If only they weren’t so blind and ignorant.